The Clarke School for the Deaf has begun an $850,000 renovation project on the 168-year-old Rogers Hall on Round Hill Road. Plans call for the gutting of the entire four-story historic building from the inside, and construction of new classrooms, laboratories, libraries and offices.
Supervisors for Jackson Street playground and Sheldon Field named by the Northampton Recreation Dept. are Dave Tewhill and Shireen Lefebvre, Jackson Street, and Steven Woodruff and Carol Miller, Sheldon.
Despite a promise by the state highway commissioner that work would begin this summer on widening the Coolidge Bridge to four lanes, the widening has been postponed possibly until next spring because design work has not been completed. “This is really ridiculous,” said state Sen. Stanley Rosenberg, D-Amherst.
Construction of an 83-room hotel on Atwood Drive could begin in May 2001, the developer said Wednesday, after the Conservation Commission approved the project. The estimated 40,000-square-foot, three-story building will be located on more than two acres across Atwood Drive from the Inn at Northampton.
Assistant Fire Chief Duane Nichols, a Northampton native and 28-year veteran of the Fire Department with deep roots in the ranks of Northampton’s public safety services, will be the next fire chief if the City Council approves the appointment made Wednesday by Mayor David J. Narkewicz. Nichols, 50, is a member of a family with a record of public safety service. His father, Kenneth, retired after 29 years as a patrol officer with the Northampton Police and his brother Donald is a 32-year member of the Police Department.
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